One More Chance: A Second-Chance Gay Romance (Boys of Oceanside Book 3) by Rachel Kane

Author:Rachel Kane [Kane, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Published: 2017-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

22

Ransom

Does it make me a bad person that I was happy to get out of Cave’s suite? The second the door closed behind me, I leaned against the wall and deflated with a long, long sigh.

I had been so close to asking him about last night. Not the sex part; I think we could both agree that went very well. But he’d left, in the middle of the night. Had it just been because he needed to be with his baby? Or had he been trying to get away from me?

Why did it matter so much? I’d woken up and reached out for him, confused and a little sad to find that he had gone. I’d sat up in bed, looking all around for him, before exhaustion had pushed me back onto the pillows and put me to sleep for another few hours.

I knew I was in dangerous territory here. For all my protestations that this trip was just a chance to have some fun with him, a chance to be semi-normal, I couldn’t deny that I was feeling something strong, something I was afraid to name, afraid to ask about. Did he feel it too? I was frightened by the idea that he might.

But back there in his suite, when I’d had Jojo on my lap, a fire in the fireplace, the strange warmth of domesticity in the air, I had felt the question hanging between Cave and me, unasked. I could see it in his face, that he had the question too: What are we doing? What is this? What does it mean?

I wondered if he was as afraid of the answer as I was.

Toby was in his suite, looking well-rested and freshly pink from a shower, a towel around his shoulders, but already back on his laptop, tapping away emails. “Morning,” he said. “Have you eaten?”

I touched my throat. “Not quite in the mood yet.”

“Are you sure we don’t need to get a doctor to look at you? I don’t know why your voice would suddenly have gotten worse in the past 24 hours.”

Of course, I couldn’t tell him it was because Cave had thrown me into an ice-cold lake; he’d have Cave arrested for assault or something. Better to stay off the subject of Cave entirely while I was with Toby. It wasn’t like we could hide from the fact that Cave was our reason for being here, but if we kept up the polite fiction that it was a vacation for all of us, we could avoid more uncomfortable conversations about it.

“Where’s Giselle?” I asked.

“She and Rhody are holed up on her balcony. I believe she is busy bad-mouthing you. She hates it here, Ransom.”

“She’ll survive,” I said.

“You know, she’s a human being too,” said Toby. “She came a long way to help you out. You could treat her better than you’re doing. I know you’re all distracted by your boyfriend right now--”

“He’s not my--”

“--but she’s your friend, and she deserves better. We’re going to have to do something really nice for her.

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